Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Illinois Skies (aka Pictures That Don't Suck)

I did actually get some nice pictures from my camera. I happen to like cloudwatching, so I shot some photos of the sky during the first shoot. I think this camera will do an adequate job of photographing clouds. Following are some pictures from the evening of May 29, with a westering sun. Unfortunately I missed the bright orange penny of the sun caught between cloud and ground, as I was helping jump-start the lawnmower at that time.

This is a view of clouds to the east of Fieldhaven.



This is a view of clouds to the south of Fieldhaven.



These are pictures of clouds to the west of Fieldhaven.







You can see that it took a little practice to get the horizon line relatively straight. Earlier pictures were worse about that. The 30-second limit on aiming does not help.
Tags: illinois, nature, personal, photography
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je_reviens

je_reviens

June 5 2009, 00:45:25 UTC 12 years ago

Oh those are pretty! I can see now that your earlier issue is probably also bc your camera does not have a macro setting for close up. It's probably intended for landscapes and further away shots.
ysabetwordsmith

Thanks ...

ysabetwordsmith

June 5 2009, 01:50:05 UTC 12 years ago

Ironically, when I tried to shoot some impressionist photos on purpose this afternoon -- either swaying, or shooting from about a foot away -- they came out a lot clearer than expected or intended. So go figure. Maybe the camera is really demonic and the tiny gremlin painter inside it is perversely determined to produce the opposite of what I want at any given moment.